Properly shaped beam is correct, most cycling lights don't have that. At least not until Phillips Saferide light came out, they shaped their beam to be flat and similar to a motorcycle beam pattern, along with a larger lens instead of those small pinhead light lens. I rode with both my Cygolite Mitycross 480 and the Phillips with a friend watching me come towards him, and he said he noticed the Phillips more then the other because the light looked bigger.